Hillsboro recorder., 1887-09-15
You will be likoIy g save trouble by

remedy for pear blight, though it cannot
be wholly relied upon when the trees are
we'll under way with the disease.
Fine hay or cut or well broken straw
makes good nests for hens. As good,
perhaps better, nests can be made Of
shavings Of soft wood from the carpen-
ter's bench.
Fowls should not be allowed around
barns, stables or carriage houses. They
are neither useful nor ornamental adj
juncts thereto; on the contrary, they are
highly detrimental.
Recent experiments seem to show that
eggs will keep in fair condition from
June to November packed in salt, and
that it is quite as good as the hme and
salt pickle commonly used.
Never clean horses in the stable; the
dust fouls their crib, makes them dis.
gusted with their food, and vitiates the
atmosphere, which should be kept health
ful by every means at command.
Forg gapes put ten drops spirits turpen-
tine in pint of water, and give no other
liquid TO the chicks to drink. Put
teaspoonful of turpentine in quart of
corn meal and feed. Turpentine Instant
ly destroys the cape worm.
The best way to break a horse from
baking is to beat him at his own game!
Tire him out by humoring and enforcing
his freak, even il it continue all night
1t is trying remedy, not to say severe,
but il win succeed in the end, which fact
should render perseverance a desider-
atum.
A woman chicken fancier says: have
raised chicks for twenty years and know
whereof affirm when / say they will
grow we'll enough on corn meal mixed
with milk, provided they have clean
quarters and plenty of range. have had
the same breed lay months earlier than
my ncighbor, who fed boiled eggs. &c.
A mess offeed given to COW while she is
being milked draws her attention and she
will not hold up the milk as cows are apt
to do when the calf is taken from them.
The milking can be deAemore thoroughly |
as. well as quicker, when the cow is
9'sfetly feeding. And il fed cabbage or
turnips at this time the odor will not effect
the milk. @*t
The following is given as good prep
aration for the destruction Of the beetle
or potato bug: Take three pounds of
lime, slake, and add six to eight gallons
of water, and tablespoonful Of concen-
trated lye. Mix all together and apply
to the vines with q common sprinkler.
II will work like a charm, one or two
applications completely ridding the patch
Of the beetles and larye.
Perhaps no family of insects is more
widely distributed or more generally de-
structiye and better known than plant
lice. These pests do not content them
selves with any single part Of a pant.
Some work on the roots and sap the vital
ity of the herb or tree; others draw their
nourishment from the stems and twigs
and thus blight the plants; still othe:s
suck the vitality from bud aud foliage. A
few work on both roots and leaves.
Most cultivated vegetables, grains aud
trees have their characteristic plant
house enemies.
All Of our domestic fowls are useful,
but in varying degrees and different di-
rections. No classification upon their
useful qualities can be made which will
be complete. The following, however,
by the Poultrg World, will be Of value to
many readers: Egg producers-Leg-
horns, Hamburgs, Russians, Minorcas,
Black Spanish, Polish and Andalusian.
Table fowls--Dorking, Hondares, La
Fleche, Games. Creyecours, Brahmas,
Cochins, Langshans. General utility
fowls-Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes,
Jayas, Dominiques. But all such classi-
fications are far from complete, for some
Of the table fowls are excellent LAYERS
and some Of the great egg producers are
fitted to satisfy the taste OF an epicure.
The Seneca Lake grape growers recon-
mend early plowing as a means OF retain
ing moisture in the soil An old vine
yard does not require manure close TO
the vines, as the small roots are foand
nearer the centre Of the rows; bat young
vineyards should be manfred close to the
vine and plowed close. Flowing away
from the vines and then levcling with
the cultiyator are advisable. Hand hoe
ing ust lie avoided. Vines should be
kept in good condition in dry weather by
stirring the soil frequently, which serves
also to gather the ammonia from the
atmosphere. Vineyards on clay soil re.
quire more cultivation. Cutting the
vines in summer Is thought 10 be injuri-
Gus, although good fruit is grown In an
old vineyard where il was necessary 10
do this, as the tTellises were no. sufficient
10 keep the fruit from the ground. One
grower said that his Isabella vineyard
had been in bearing twenty-five yeas
and still produced good fruit.
Some horses have habit, when fright.
ened by strange objects which they meet
upon the road, Of turning around 50
abruptly as 10 endanger the occupants Of
the carriage, II four wheeled vehicle.
Colts, when first harnessed, II driven 20
q certain point and turned around, often
insist upon repeating the trick every time
they reach that particular spot. They
geuefally turn In the SINE direction
every time. The simplest remedy that we
hare heard for breaking up this habit,
says the Cgitioator, Is 10 take q light,
strong bamboo iishpole, fasten the small
end 70 the ring Of the Bit upon the side
toward which the animal Is accustomed
10 turn. Bring the other end Of the
pole back into the carriage. When the
youngster attempts the turning feat push
uponthe pole with sufficient force TO pre-.
vent his carrying out his purpose. This